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LEE v. U.S.

No. 03-CF-1319.

959 A.2d 1141 (2008)

Maurice LEE, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided November 6, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mindy A. Daniels, for appellant.

Suzanne G. Curt, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Jeffrey A. Taylor, United States Attorney, and Roy W. McLeese III and Denise Chung, Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before KRAMER and THOMPSON, Associate Judges, and FARRELL, Associate Judge, Retired.

FARRELL, Associate Judge, Retired:

Appellant (Lee) was found guilty by a jury of second-degree murder while armed for the stabbing death of Melvin Hairston. The main issue he raises, and the only one we decide, is whether the trial judge erred in refusing to instruct the jury on mitigating circumstances, see CRIMINAL JURY INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (the Redbook), No. 4.19 B (2007 ed.), where evidence...

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